商文学：美国华人文学研究的新视角

商文学指以描写商业或商人为主要内容的文学作品。在今天这个商业社会里，商人代替以往的武将、主教、知识精英等成为新的时代英雄，商场也许成为了最好的人性与现代性展台，商文学及其研究也因此日渐兴盛。在全球化语境下，那些跨越多种文化身份的商人最具时代特征。分析、反思他们的文学呈现也就具有了独特的意义。由于各种历史的原因，美国华人商文学在全球化语境中尤具典型性。本文指出了这一新的研究视角的当下意义，并尝试提出美国华人商文学研究的基本思路，指出形象学、跨文明比较、族裔散居等研究范式的可资运用。

Business Literature:A New Perspective for Chinese American Literature Study

In this commercial world,merchants have become the new hero replacing the knights, bishops,and intellectual elites, thus bringing in the booming of ＂Business Literature＂ the literary works focusing on merchants or commerce. In the context of globalization, the business literature which focuses on the merchants with cross-cultural identity have special advantage and deserves more attention, among which is the Chinese American Business Literature. This paper calls for due attention to the Chinese American Business Literature study and provides some practical suggestions to further study in question.